Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]

Very much social democratic with a revolutionary veneer. They run Organizing for Power which promulgates the organizing model of “don’t do anything unless 90% of the workforce basically already agrees with you”.

Actually, some of the people this address was given to would go on to create the SPD and Marx and Engels would support them. The SPD, though it contained a conservative wing, would remain the party of the German proletariat until it split over supporting the first World War and the Bolsheviks in Russia.

I’m not sure what specific names the German petty bourgeois were organizing under in 1850 but at the end of the Communist Manifesto they discuss a number of trends in German politics that would include the petty bourgeoisie.

They were talking about the German petty bourgeoisie who they thought would betray the revolutionary proletariat once a bourgeois republic was established. 70 years later the Social Democrats put down the proletarian revolution in Germany to protect the Weimar Republic, inaugurating the reaction in Germany.

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled.

-Marx and Engels, March 1850

It always surprises me how few deaths or major injuries happen in retail environments. There’s relatively few hazards but holy shit I’ve never seen people take their own safety and the safety of their employees so unseriously for the laziest reasons.

I think the clearest indication of how weak the left is in the US is the incredibly superficial understanding of the labor movement in this country and the contradictions within it. Just total ignorance of how the big unions constantly fight each other, fuck each other over, and screw over the broader working class, oftentimes for the pettiest nonsense. They’re all more than happy to sell out the most vulnerable and isolated workers if it means a slightly quicker deal with bosses and the collection of dues money.

This doesn’t even touch on the fact that a lot of these unions are full of white collar workers that we would probably condemn individually as social fascists but then they go on strike and we celebrate it for some reason.

I’m sorry you got screwed by this. I hope you can find decent work somewhere soon.

That’s what it already is except they just execute you in the street and then get a paid vacation.

At this point basically all most unions do is political work, mostly fighting right to work so that they can collect revenue without having to organize anyone.

When I heard that guy on Rev Left radio say that I nearly burst out laughing. The understanding most leftists have of the labor movement is pathetic.

Everyone seems to forget that a significant economic downturn started in late 2019 and it was only the unprecedented stimulus in response to the pandemic that staved it off. Well now here we are almost five years later with most of that stimulus cut off and in a much worse international position. They’re just trying to pretend it isn’t falling apart through the election but next year we’re in for a bad time.

Idk all the anti-vaxxers where I live are insane wealthy white baptists that would have been in the klan a century ago (if they aren’t right now). The poorer people in town tend to get their shots.

Maybe we should differentiate colonized/imperialized peoples that are skeptical of Western medicine because they’ve been victims of it from those that are Nazis that hate everything modern or any expectations of them.

In all reality it probably isn’t even true either. When Trump took office membership and activity of left wing organizations exploded. It was so much easier to organize people into a state of rebellion when they couldn’t pretend things were fine under Trump than it has been under Biden.

Funny, my Democratic governor has been the primary roadblock to indigenous sovereignty in my state and continues to fuck them over at every turn she gets. I’m sure they’re glad she’s there thinking of them though.

While I think the members of Red Star mean well and their faction generally has good positions, I’ve gotta push back on the idea that they’ve significantly pushed DSA’s international work broadly or their anti-zionist work specifically in a better direction. The recent gutting of the anti-zionist resolution by the NPC and the retraction of the statements on the Venezuelan election and the Israeli assassination in Iran show that at the highest level DSA is firmly in control of chauvinist social democrats on these issues (I had to scoff when I heard of the “left” NPC getting elected last year, as if Bread and Roses are left lol)

Furthermore, DSA’s position on the presidential election has always been firmly invested in working within the Democratic party as seen by their focus on the “uncommitted” movement and their recent statement about Harris picking Walz as her VP. They still hide in their dirty break/party surrogate position which functionally ends up the same as the CP’s line.

There are a lot of good people in DSA and I learned a lot when I was a member but the organization is fundamentally repelled by any sort of discipline and the social fascists on it’s right wing maintain their power through that disorder and have demonstated that they do not care if their opportunism harms the organization or anyone else for that matter. Changing it into something viable would take an immense amount of work that would be sabotaged by SMC/Groundwork/B&R every step of the way, or you could just join an actual Leninist org.

If she’s a real one she’ll run this fall anyways.

Voters could elect a Trump administration that denies the climate crisis and whose policies are dictated by the fossil fuel industry.

Or a Kamala Harris administration that builds on climate-friendly policies, curbs the power of the fossil fuel industry, accelerates a clean energy revolution, adapts to climate change, and builds resilient communities and global solidarity.

From People’s World just the other day. Been kinda crazy to see them mobilize so quickly in support of her.

Also totally ignores that she’ll just continue Biden’s legacy of expanded Alaskan oil drilling and tariffs on green tech from China.